hacktricks/generic-methodologies-and-resources/search-exploits.md

# Search Exploits

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### Browser

Always search in "google" or others: **\<service\_name> \[version] exploit**

You should also try the **shodan** **exploit search** from [https://exploits.shodan.io/](https://exploits.shodan.io).

### Searchsploit

Useful to search exploits for services in **exploitdb from the console.**

```bash
#Searchsploit tricks
searchsploit "linux Kernel" #Example
searchsploit apache mod_ssl #Other example
searchsploit -m 7618 #Paste the exploit in current directory
searchsploit -p 7618[.c] #Show complete path
searchsploit -x 7618[.c] #Open vi to inspect the exploit
searchsploit --nmap file.xml #Search vulns inside an nmap xml result
```

### Pompem

[https://github.com/rfunix/Pompem](https://github.com/rfunix/Pompem) is another tool to search for exploits

### MSF-Search

```bash
msf> search platform:windows port:135 target:XP type:exploit
```

### PacketStorm

If nothing is found, try to search the used technology inside [https://packetstormsecurity.com/](https://packetstormsecurity.com)

### Vulners

You can also search in vulners database: [https://vulners.com/](https://vulners.com)

### Sploitus

This searches for exploits in other databases: [https://sploitus.com/](https://sploitus.com)

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